Thursday, May 28, 2015

The Role of Metacognition in Self Advocacy

Back in March my students prepared a "Self - Advocacy Pamphlet" to prepare for their transition to high school. You can see the older blog post here Creating Self - Advocacy Pamphlets .  Our class was later asked by the LDAO to create a short video about what exactly we did to create these pamphlets.
       It wasn't until my students and I made the video that I realized how important this activity was. After sitting down and talking candidly to my students about the challenges they are faced due to a learning disability, my students became far more self aware. Although we cannot see what is going on our students' heads, we can have conversations about what the students are thinking and why they are thinking it. 
      After the students were more aware of exactly how their learning disabilities affect their learning, they are able to precisely explain how their LD affects their learning. I think my students are better prepared for their transition to high school because they are getting to be more and more self aware.


Tuesday, May 26, 2015

The Importance of Reading Books that Interest you

I was reading this book for a couple of weeks and I thought that I liked the book at first, but then after reading the book for a wile I decided that I didn't like the it. So I got a new book and Mr. D asked me, "Why did you get a new book?" So I said, "yesterday I forgot my book and I didn't really like the book I was reading." He said "That's good! So do you think that you have enough time in your life to read ten of twenty books that you're not interested in?".  

I think that it is important to like what you are reading because if you don't like what you are reading you will grow to dislike reading because you don't like what you're reading.


What do you think?

Friday, May 22, 2015

How to Make the Dreamwork!

As Mr. Brown always says, "Teamwork Makes the Dreamwork!". Working together, is not easy. There are many things we need to take into consideration when working together.

What is easy about working together?

What is hard about working together?

Comment below and explain your thinking!

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Reading response

After reading the first chapter of the universe I have some questions. The Whole topic of the universe is mind boggling so it was hard to come up with a question but here is what I got. I wonder if there is life on any planets in or out of our Solar System and if so why did nobody tell the public. I hope to get an answer to my question.